Making whiteness

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Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled - and distorting - component of twentieth-century American identity. Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how, when faced with the active citizenship of their ex-slaves after the Civil War, white southerners reestablished their dominance through a cultural system based on violence and physical separation.

And in analysis of the meaning of segregation for the nation as a whole, she explains how white southerners' creation of modern "whiteness" was, beginning in the 1920s, taken up by the rest of the nation as a way of enforcing a new social hierarchy while at the same time creating the illusion of a national, egalitarian, consumerist democracy.

• African Americans
• History
• Race identity
• Race relations
• Segregation
• Social conditions
• Whites
• Southern states, race relations
• Southern states, social conditions
• African americans, segregation

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1998

Pantheon Books · İngilizce · 427 sayfa
ISBN 0679442634

Tarih yok

Vintage · İngilizce
ISBN 0679776206

June 1, 1999

Vintage · İngilizce · 448 sayfa
ISBN 9780679776208